Chapter 1040 - 24: I Can See All the Cheat Plugins

"Right, right, I’m just a piece of talking junk, that’s all. And from what I know about your world, Host, to keep you from getting too lonely in the future, me chatting with you is a good thing too." The system kept howling and bawling, making Lin Daying’s head ache.

"Quit howling, I’m not going to kill you." Lin Daying said irritably, "If you keep it up I really will strip you out."

The system shut up immediately.

The Emperor couldn’t help but laugh, then nodded: "Alright then, we’ll keep this piece of junk to talk with you. If it ever dares do you harm, we’ll strip it out and shatter it on the spot." In fact, the high monk had said that these systems were already no longer dangerous. It was just that he himself felt grossed out and wanted to destroy all of them. But since Lin Daying had pleaded for this one, he’d let it stay.

"Mm, thank you, Your Majesty." Lin Daying said happily.

After Lin Daying also left, the Emperor let out a breath.

He had finally dealt with all these bizarre things in the harem. That high monk really was formidable. When the monk revealed the true nature of Noble Consort Shu’s space, he had been shocked too. He’d never imagined that Noble Consort Shu’s space actually consumed her own self! When you thought about it carefully, it was truly terrifying.

The second day after Noble Consort Shu went back, she came to beg the Empress Dowager, looking utterly haggard.

She begged the high monk by the Empress Dowager’s side to strip away her space. There were many things she didn’t even dare to think through in detail.

The Emperor’s words had completely woken her up.

She had gained so many benefits from the space—could it really be that she didn’t have to pay any price? Impossible.

After Noble Consort Shu’s space was removed, she just felt her whole body grow lighter. Then she looked at the faintly red Jade Pendant in the monk’s hand, and reached inward for her space; discovering she could no longer sense it at all, she finally was sure the space had been stripped away. And that strangely crimson Jade Pendant in the monk’s hand was her space.

Smelling that stench of blood, Noble Consort Shu felt a chill in her heart. The color and odor of that Jade Pendant were already proclaiming to her that it was absolutely no good thing.

"Alright, go back and reflect properly. I also know what you were planning to do. For the sake of the upright conduct of your father and brothers in office, I won’t pursue it. But if you dare entertain such ideas again, don’t blame me for being merciless." The Emperor said coldly to Noble Consort Shu.

Noble Consort Shu’s face turned ashen. She understood that the Emperor had indeed already seen through her scheme. She knelt to confess her guilt and vowed she would never offend again.

After the high monk finished all this, he was ready to leave. No matter how the Emperor tried to keep him, it was useless; even conferring him as State Preceptor could not move him. In the end, the Emperor could only reluctantly see the monk off.

Not only was everything resolved, the Emperor had also asked the monk for another Jade Pendant and gifted it to the Empress Dowager. If such unfathomable events happened again in future, the two of them would both be able to see.

However, in the days that followed, no such unfathomable events occurred again.

The concubines of the harem all safely bore children, and following the approach provided by Lin Daying, the Emperor founded the Royal Kindergarten and also reformed the Upper Study Room system, so that the Princes and Princesses all received the best education and grew up healthy.

Lin Daying—oh no, she was now already Consort Lin. She bore two Princes and one Princess.

Over the course of the Emperor’s reign, he also encountered many of the problems every Emperor would face, such as drought and flooding. Other Emperors would send people to provide relief, spending money and effort, but this Emperor was different. His luck truly wasn’t ordinary. When there was a drought, he was in the middle of discussing with his ministers whom to send for disaster relief, and in the very next moment, an urgent report arrived: heavy rain, drought resolved. When there was flooding, the Emperor was anxious and sleepless with worry; the next day, another urgent report came: the floodwaters had receded.

Even the Emperor himself was dumbfounded, and asked himself inwardly: could he really be the Heaven’s Mandated Son?